Taxes: Obama flip-flops on increases

10:35 PM,
Jan. 16, 2013

Written by

Teresa L. McCroskey
Republic

In "The Communist Manifesto," Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote, "...the theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: abolition of private property. We communists have been reproached with the desire of abolishing the right of personally acquiring property as the fruit of a man's own labor, which property is alleged to be the ground work of all personal freedom, activity and independence."

When President Obama was running for office, he stated that he knew that raising taxes (abolition of private property?) would not increase revenue, but he felt it should be done out of ...